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The  Paul  Nocquet 

Memorial  Exhibition 

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AMERICAN  ART  GALLERIES 
MADISON  SQUARE  SOUTH 

NEW  YORK 


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CATALOGUE 

OF  THE 

Memorial  Exhibiti 

OF  THE  WORKS  OF 

PAUL  NOCOUET 

ON  EXHIBITION 

April  28th  to  May  6th,  1906 

T/ic  /I  ni  eric  an  Art  Association,  Manager 
NEir  roRK 


Press  of  J.  J.  Little  &  Co. 
Astor  Place,  New  York 


HONORARY  COMMITTEE 


President  Roosevelt. 

Monsieur  J.  J.  Jusserand,  French  Amhassa- 
dor. 

Bauon  MoxcHKru,  Belgian  Minister. 
PiKKUK  AI        Belgian  Cofisnl. 
SiK  Casi'ak  Pi  kdox  ('i.aukk. 

Gkokck  I)k  Fokkst  HursH. 
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KoiiKur  \\ .  1)k  Pokkst. 
Frank  1)a.mu()s(h. 
AuGi'STi  s  St.  (iaudkns. 
Fhan/  Kxeisel. 
Jek     am  beaux. 
Emerson  McMiuuin. 
A i.riioxsK  MrcHA. 

J.    HaUSKX  linOADES. 

auguste  kodin. 

Isaac  \.  Sei-igman. 

'I'n  KODOKE  15.  Stauu. 

Arthur  Whiting. 

Mada:me  Sarah  Bernhardt. 

Mks.  John  W.  Simpson. 


MANAGEMENT  OF  THE  PAUL 
NOCQUET  MEMORIAL 
EXHIBITION 


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J.  NiLSKx  Lai  kvik 

.Ike  Leempoels 

Alfkei)  Seligmax 

Waltek  Shiklaw 

Fredekic  AL  N'ekmouckex 


COMMITTEE  REPRESENTING  SCULPTORS 


Daniel  Chester  French,  Chairman 
Herbert  Adams  H.  A.  MacNeil 

Karl  Bitter  Atillio  Piccirilli 

Augustus  St.  Gaudens     A.  P.  Proctor 


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Corti>anj)t  F.  Bisnoi'.  C.  M.  Manlkv 
Carl  Dienstbach  Augt'stus  Post 

William  J.  IIammku  Lko  Stevens 

A.  M.  TI KKitixG  l)i{.  »Jri,i.\x  P.  Thomas 

COCNT    1)L    LA  NaIIA 


CATAL()(;i  IN(i  COALMITTEE 
J.  NiLSEX  Lai  kvik,  Chairman 

MUS.    X.    iVl'l'LKTON  rOK    Loi  (JHKEI) 

GuT/OX    lioUGLUM  J  K  K    L  K  KM  I'O  K  I,S 

Lkox  Daro  F.  fl.   .Mathkk,  Ju. 

Chaulks  1L  1)a\is  Miss  M.  W.  Moxtgomery 

Ali'hoxsk  MrcHA 


PREFATORY  NOTE 


The  death  of  Paul  Nocquet,  the  Belgian 
sculptor  and  aeronaut,  from  exhaustion  in  the 
marshes  of  Long  Island,  on  April  4tli  last,  re- 
moves a  most  original  and  forceful  personality. 
As  a  sculptor  he  leaves  hehind  liim,  at  tlie  age 
of  twenty-nine,  a  hody  of  work  tliat  would  do 
credit  to  a  man  twice  his  years,  and  as  a  I'ear- 
less  investigator  of  the  science  of  aerostation, 
one  of  the  great  ])r()hlenis  engrossing  tlie  hest 
minds  of  to-chiy,  he  must  forever  i-emain  an  in- 
spiring exam])le. 

Paul  Noc(juet  was  boi'n  in  Hi-ussels  in  llie 
year  1877,  of  Frencli  ])arents.  At  the  age  of 
fourteen  he  began  to  study  ])ainting  in  the  ]^rus- 
sels  Art  School  under  Jean  Portaels.  After  two 
years  in  that  school  he  went  to  xVntwerp,  where 
he  studied  for  some  time,  returning  again  to  tlie 
Brussels  Art  School.  Following  a  dispute  with 
his  teaclier  he  left  his  studio  and  entered  the 
classes  for  scul])ture,  where,  ai'ter  three  months' 
study,  he  won  a  prize,  which  encouraged  him  to 
continue  sculpture.  It  was  here  that  he  met  the 
great  Jet'  Jiambeaux,  who,  on  seeing  some  of 


his  work,  invited  him  to  become  his  pupil,  an 
offer  which  he  gladly  accepted. 

In  the  year  1900,  at  the  age  of  twenty-three, 
he  entered  the  annual  sculpture  competition  in 
Belgium  and  won  the  "  Prix  Godecharle," 
Scholarship  of  Rome,  which  enabled  him  to  con- 
tinue his  studies  abroad.  In  place  of  going  to 
Rome,  however,  as  was  the  condition  imposed 
upon  the  winner  of  the  prize,  he  obtained  per- 
mission to  go  to  Paris,  where  he  studied  sculp- 
ture with  Mercie  and  painting  with  Gerome. 
He  began  to  exhibit  in  the  Salon  du  Champ 
de  Mars "  at  once,  and  two  years  later  was 
elected  "  Associe,"  which  enabled  him  to  exhibit 
exempt  from  jury.  He  enjoyed  the  friendship 
of  the  foremost  men  of  his  art.  He  knew  Meu- 
nier,  worked  with  Jef  Lambeaux  and  listened 
close  to  the  whispering  of  the  muses  of  Rodin. 

He  came  to  America  in  August  of  1903,  and 
immediately  took  out  his  first  papers  of  Ameri- 
can citizenship.  In  his  profession  of  sculptor 
he  became  a  trained  craftsman,  who  knew  his 
limitations  as  he  believed  in  his  power.  His  only 
real  heartache  was  one  that  must  inevitably  bless 
every  man  of  genius — the  limitations  of  every 
form  of  human  expression  and  chiefly  that  of  his 
own  medium;  hence  the  despair  that  labors  in 
much  of  his  work.  He  was  like  every  great 
man  in  that  he  could  and  did  work  with  tremen- 
dous energy,  which  gave  a  strength  and  virility 
to   his   productions   that   grip   one's  interest. 


Two  great  forces  are  made  manifest  in  his  work 
— the  moral  and  material  contention  in  life. 
His  group  entitled  the  ^Idultercr  ilhistrates 
most  strongly  his  great  reverence  for  the  under- 
lying moral  force  in  life,  as  the  group  called 
Effort  shows  how  deeph^  he  was  impressed  with 
the  merely  physical,  the  material  force,  ^^'hich 
constitutes  man's  most  primitive  expression  of 
himself.  His  loss  to  all  of  us  and  to  those  who 
perhaps  a])])rove(l  him  least  is  very  great.  AVe 
need  in  America  the  stimuhis  of  his  ])oint  of 
view. 

His  productions  to  date  are  ])ower('uL  innnci- 
ous  and  varied;  they  show  a  wide  symj)athy  that 
made  us  all  heheve  in  a  great  Cnture.  while  many 
of  his  works  are  ])iM/ed  hy  those  who  know  hest 
as  masterpieces  of  th(  ii*  kind. 


His  interest  in  hallooning  dated  IVoiii  a  \ cry 
early  age  and  grew  keener  w  'lih  the  years.  He 
had  ah-eady  won  a  considerable  reputation  abroad 
as  a  danntless  and  \ei-y  able  aei-oiiaut,  \\h()se 
many  successful  flights  aroused  the  admiration 
of  such  a  veteran  as  C'a])az/a,  who  was  one  of 
his  dearest  and  most  intimate  friends,  and  in 
whose  balloon  he  went  to  his  untimely  death. 
The  ascension  he  made  from  Xew  York  City  on 
April  3d,  successfully  landing  on  one  of  the 
outermost  sandbars  lying  off  Long  Island,  is 


now  considered  by  experts  as  being  in  many  re- 
spects one  of  the  most  remarkable  flights  ever 
taken  by  a  balloonist.  By  it  he  proved  con- 
clusively his  theories  of  the  local  winds  and  air 
currents,  and  has  contributed  in  no  small  degree 
towards  the  actual  knowledge  of  aerostation. 

B.-L. 

New  York,  April  24,  1906. 


Yaxcning  Woniiin 


LIST  OF  SCULPTURES 


T.IST  OF  SCULPTURES 
1  — Presidential  Vacation 

Presented  to  President  Roosevelt  (in  1905). 

2 —  Yawning'  Girl 

J*;itined  ])laster — Paris  Salon. 

3 —  Master  Dich'fi  Lotceii^ard 

Portrait  — l)r()nze. 

^—Effort 

(ij-onj)  — l)ronzt>. 

5— Mr.  Loel) 

Portrait — niarl)le. 

(S—The  Soldier  of  Marathon 

Bronze — Paris  Salon. 


7 — American  Football 

Group — bronze.    Presented  to  Columbia  Uni- 
versity Club  by  I.  N.  Seligman,  Esq. 


8 — Man  with  Horn 


9— The  Cursed 


10— Hate 


Bronze  vase — Paris  Salon. 


Bronze — Paris  Salon. 


Bronze — Paris  Salon 


11 — Woman  with  Sickle 


12 — Bacchus 


Bronze — Paris  Salon. 


Bronze — Paris  Salon, 


13 — The  Cursed 


Statue — Paris  Salon 


14 —  Man  Who  Weeps 

Patined  plaster. 

15 —  Endless  Grief 

Patined  plaster. 

1 6 —  Deadl//  Stru ggle 

PatiiK'd  ])laster. 

17—  Men  Who  PuU 

Patined  plaster. 


18 — Dancing-  (wirl 


Owned  hv  Hcnjaniin  Altnian,  Ksi\. 


10— il//'.v.  Fniiihlid  Harris 

Portj'ait     patined  plaster. 

20 —  Hercules  and  Anta  us 

(iroiip     pat  ined  plaster. 

21—  Kn^Hsh  airl 

Bust — })atine(l  plasti'r. 


22 —  In  Minor  Strain 

Patined  plaster. 

23 —  Caryatid 

Figure — wax. 

24 —  Suicide 

Figure — patined  plaster. 

25 —  Decorative  Foimtain 

Plaster. 

26 —  Slavery 

Patined  plaster — Paris  Salon. 

27 —  Bruins 

Decorative  bust. 

28—  — Strength 

Decorative  vase^ — Paris  Salon. 

2^—Thor 

Statue — plaster. 


30 —  Monsieur  C.  Laurent 

Portrait — bust. 

31 —  Wounded  Man 

Statue — patincd  plaster.     (Silver  Medal — St. 
Louis  World's  Fair.) 

32 —  Ah'ar  the  Abyss 

l*atiiied  plaster — I'aris  Salon. 

33 —  ^iffiiction 

Statuette-   ])atiiu'(l  j)la>t(.r.     Paris  Salon. 

i^^—Ccn i a u r  S t ru i:;^lln^ 

(iroup     Paris  Salon. 

35 — K(i  u  cslria  n  Fi^  h  t 

(irou])     Paris  Salon. 

3() — (wdslon  dc  Ch  rlaclw 

Port  I'ait — terra  eotta. 

37 — Fri^h  Icti  cd  lf\)  m  a  n 

Bust — terra  cotta. 


38 —  Decorative  Bas-relief 

Plaster. 

39 —  Vanity 

Patined  plaster — Paris  Salon. 

40^ — Desolation 

Patined  plaster — Paris  Salon. 

41 —  Men  Working 

Group — patined  plaster — Paris  Salon. 

42 —  Master  Florian 

Portrait — terra  cotta. 

43 —  Sketch  of  a  Fountain 

Plaster. 

44 —  Force 

Patined  plaster — Paris  Salon. 

45—  — The  Two  Weepers 

Patined  plaster — Paris  Salon. 


46 —  Decorative  Candlestick 

Patiric'd  plaster — Paris  Salon. 

47 —  Mademoiselle  Beatrice  X, 

Portrait — patincd  plaster — Paris  Salon. 

48 —  Despair 

Patincd  plaster — Paris  Salon. 

49 —  The  Man  and  His  Chimera 

Patined  plaster — l*aris  Salon. 

50 —  Justice 

l*atiiie(l  plaster- — Paris  Salon. 

51 —  xinaUn'ina 

Patincd  plaster- — Paris  Salon. 

52 —  Won  uded 

l*atincd  plaster. 

yd— Effort 

Sketch — terra  cotta. 


54 —  Model  for  Paul  Jones  Memorial  Door 

Received  third  prize  in  competition. 

55 —  Dutch  Knight 

Bust — terra  cotta. 

LAST  WORK,  FOUND  UNFINISHED 

56 —  Guilty  W oman 

57 —  Fawn  and  Nymph  * 


LIST  OF  l)UA\VI\(iS 


LIST  OF  DRAWINGS 


5S—The  Guilty  Woman 

Pencil  drawino' — front  and  roar  views. 

od—Thc  IloUda// 

Water  color  design — advert isiiio-  poster. 

GO — Blue  Pencil  Draici}!^-  of  Full  Figure 
(U — Skefehes  for  Paul  Jones  Memorial  Door 

(A)  Lunette — snialler  studies  of  same  on  hack. 

(/y)  Male  figure  for  caryatid. 

{K)  Male  figure  for  caryatid. 

(J)   Sketcli  for  door  and  details  of  same. 

(A')  Sketch  for  figure  of  l*aul  Joiu^. 

(Q)  Sketches  of  Paul  Jones  for  door. 

{li)  Sketches  of  Paul  Jones  for  door. 

(S)  Sketches  of  Paul  Jones  for  door. 

(T)  Sketches  of  Paul  Jones  for  door. 

(U)  Sketch  for  lunette. 

(IP)  Study  for  figure  of  Paul  Jones. 

(X)  Study  for  bronze  doors. 


62 —  Drawing  for  Bas-relief    In  Minor  Strain  " 

63 —  Drawing  for  Bas-relief    In  Minor  Strain 

64 —  Sketch  for  Proposed  Equestrian  Statue 

65 —  Sketch  of  Various  Figures 
m—Sketch  of  Figure 

67 — Pencil  Drawing  of  Man  in  Pain 
6S— Study  for    Effort  " 
69 — Study  of  Male  Figure 
10— Study  for  "  Effort  " 
n^Study  for    Men  Who  Pull " 
72 — Study  for  Female  Figure 


7^— Study  for  Female  and  Male  Figures 

74 —  Water  Color  DeHiij;}i  for  ]]^(dl- paper 

75 —  Water  Color  Design  for  W(dl-paper 
70 — Water  Color  I)esi<^ii  for  ]\^  all- pa  per 

77 —  Si  lid//  of  TlCo  Male  Fi;i^  iires  on  lioth  Sides 

78 —  Si  lid//  of  Mall'  Fi  <^  iires 
7^—Sliid//  for  '*  Football  " 
HO—Sfiid//  for  Mother  and  Child 
81 — Stud//  for  M(de  Figure 
H2—Ned  Chaih'  Stud//  f(,r  Cr'/V/'.v  Head 
83 — Stud//  for  (\ir//atid 


84 —  Study  of  Male  Figures 

85 —  Study  of  Male  Figure 

86 —  Study  of  Male  Figures 

87 —  Study  for  Suicide 

88 —  Study  for  Male  Figure 


Dancing  Girl 


Stiul/i  for  Hds-rdicf :  "  ///  Minor  Sfrti'iN. 


SI  11(1  II  for  liiis-nlii  f :      //.   M'mor  Stru'ni. 


